2026 CCF China Software Conference opens in Tianjin, focusing on "software building a new era of intelligence"

China News Service, Tianjin, November 7 (Reporter Zhou Yaqiang) The 2026 CCF China Software Conference (CCF ChinaSoft) opened in Tianjin on the 7th. The theme of the conference was "Software Foundation for a New Era of Intelligence". More than 3,200 academicians, experts, enterprises and industry representatives from 12 countries and regions attended the conference.

"Software is an important cornerstone of the development of the digital economy and artificial intelligence, and a key support for promoting the digital and intelligent transformation of industries." Sun Ninghui, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said in his speech that the current deep integration of artificial intelligence and software technology has brought new opportunities and challenges, and requires academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge technologies and plan a development blueprint.

Chai Liyuan, president of Tianjin University, said that the new generation of artificial intelligence technology is profoundly reshaping the software research and development model and industrial ecology, and is putting forward higher requirements for technological innovation and talent cultivation in the software field.

Cui Zhenping, director of the Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, pointed out that Tianjin will continue to carry out technological research in key areas such as basic software, industrial software, and software security, and will intensify efforts in platform cultivation, project support, achievement transformation, and scenario application in the future.

The opening ceremony released the "Secure Programming Language TrustC" and "The Achievements of Ubiquitous Intelligent Ecological Construction of Integration of Humans, Machines and Things". TrustC integrates security inspection, verification and certification mechanisms into the development process; the latter includes the open source community of intelligent software for human-machine-thing integration, the IoT device model technology white paper and the Robonix embodied intelligent operating system.

The conference set up special report sessions focusing on processor design paradigms, software vulnerabilities, and trusted software engineering in the intelligent era. The academician summit forum focused on "the new direction of China's software development in the new era of intelligent interconnection." The conference also opened a special forum for cultivating software talents in the intelligent era to discuss needs such as supporting AI computing, controlling AI applications, and ensuring AI trustworthiness.

This conference has more than 400 participating units, including more than 110 enterprises. It has set up more than 60 field forums and held five major scientific competitions including theorem proving, AI-assisted research and development, Rust software prototype development, software automatic repair, and intelligent programming.

The three-day conference is hosted by the China Computer Federation (CCF) and jointly organized by the CCF System Software Committee, CCF Software Engineering Committee, CCF Formal Methods Committee, Tianjin University and Nankai University.